Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8b5884fc92831d05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

127.9 KB Created: 2021-07-05 22:10:57 +07:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.6 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-12
MD5: d626680aa0123002b8a8eab35874bb1c SHA-1: c7ceea8847c4042d2ac71814caaa3028dc48e8ed SHA-256: 8b5884fc92831d0540b74c7056045833561229de58bbd6aec74e9c9bc35e980c
122 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains embedded links that redirect to known malicious infrastructure, specifically advertising a 'free generator / game hack' for Pokemon Go. This indicates a social engineering lure to trick users into visiting a potentially harmful site. While no scripts were extracted, the PDF structure and embedded URLs strongly suggest a phishing or redirection attack.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier clean score 0.0106

Heuristics 3

  • PDF links to a 'free generator / game hack' redirector critical PDF_GAME_HACK_REDIRECT_LURE
    PDF's clickable action targets a redirector of the form /app/<id>/<slug>-game-hack — the landing-page shape of a large SEO 'free spins / generator / game hack' lure family that funnels victims through rotating disposable hosts to a malware/scam payload. The multi-link variants also trip ML/link-farm rules; this catches the single-link variants that otherwise score clean. CRITICAL on its own: the /app/<id>/<slug>-game-hack path shape is unambiguous scam infra, and the host rotates so a host-list match can't be relied on.
  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://netcdn.tw/app/1094591345/pokmon-go-free-download-apk-game-hack In PDF document text